The Fraud

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The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?

In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet - cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more - to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.

From literary London to the Jamaica's sugar-cane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241983096
Published: June 2024

Number of pages: 464
Width: 130 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 27 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd